Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Easy-to-Use Deepfake Services for Criminals Rapidly Improving, Researchers WarnFinancial firms' fraud and risk teams must bolster know-your-customer checks in the face of increasingly effective and affordable deepfake technology and services that can generate synthetic identities, convincing face-swaps and defeat "live" biometric checks to bypass defenses, warn researchers.

Researchers at the World Economic Forum have shown that threat actors can use commercial deepfake tools to bypass corporate security protections

Entrust says AI is helping fraudsters open new accounts and bypass biometric checks

An international group of researchers found that simply rerecording deepfake audio with natural acoustics in the background allows it to bypass detection models at a higher-than-expected rate.

How Many Gaps Are Hiding in Your Identity System? It’s not just about logins anymore

Crew helped lowlifes generate X-rated celeb deepfakes using Redmond's OpenAI-powered cloud – claim Microsoft has named four of the ten people it is suing for allegedly snatching Azure cloud credentials and developing tools to bypass safety guardrails in its generative AI services – ultimately to generate deepfake smut videos of celebrities and others.…

Group-IB warns of new Trojan GoldPickaxe designed to bypass banking facial recognition with deepfakes

Defenses need a rethink in face of increasing sophistication Cyber attacks using AI-generated deepfakes to bypass facial biometrics security will lead a third of organizations to doubt the adequacy of identity verification and authentication tools as standalone protections.…